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Plan your trip during these interesting festivals in Singapore

August 2, 2016 by Sandeep MalikLeave a Comment

Festivals and peak seasons are always the best time to visit a holiday destination, and that applies for Singapore as well. Singapore celebrates three main festivals – One for the Chinese, one for Christians and one for the Chinese. This article talks about the top three festivals in Singapore.

Singapore

With its multi-racial populace, Singapore celebrates numerous festivals regularly. In the event that you anticipate going to Singapore, try to Delhi to Singapore flights during the time when a festival occurs here. Here are the top 3 festivals celebrated in Singapore.

Chinese New Year (moving date, January or February)

Chinese New Year is likely the most adored Chinese celebrations. It began in China, where it is likewise called the Spring Festival since cultivating groups generally ‘welcome the Spring’. In cutting edge times, it is a season to put the past behind and anticipate what’s to come. In Singapore, Chinese families start the festivals by looking for Chinese New Year treats and embellishments. In the 3 or 4 weeks, prompting Chinese New Year’s Day, the boulevards of Chinatown clamor with roadside slows down and throngs of customers. You realize that the season has arrived when you see those curious Chinese lamps begin to swing from structures. In the event that you are nearby, recollect likewise to look at the trapeze artists at Telok Ayer Square. See them dance and perform tricks to euphoric acclaim. River Hong Bao is a spot to see age-old Chinese convictions in real life. Watch and be entertained, or participate in the enjoyment, for all the cash gathered is given to charity. By nightfall you can go to the Esplanade Bridge and witness the mind boggling display of firecrackers show.

Chinese New Year

The Orchard Road Christmas Light Up (November to December)

For over 20 years now, the Orchard Road Christmas Light Up has enamored both local people and guests to Singapore. Truth be told, 20% of guests at the Christmas Light Up are rehash guests. On the off chance that you make a beeline for Orchard Road amid, this time, you will clearly locate the standard Christmas charge – dramatizations and hymns performed by chapel bunches. Be that as it may, maybe you will be most charmed by the Christmas lights. Uncountable pixie lights, ringers, and knick-knacks hang over Singapore’s principal shopping belt. They embellish the whole 5km stretch from Orchard Road to Marina Bay. Take a ride on an open beat twofold Decker transport, or watch from the street side as the Christmas skims advance through this Fairyland of sorts. It’ll help you to remember that first visit to Disneyland and its mysterious Parade of Floats.

The Orchard Road Christmas Light Up

Thaipusam Festival (moving date, January or February)

Thaipusam is a celebration to respect the Hindu divinity, Lord Subramaniam. It is a period for Hindus to perform demonstrations of retribution or to offer gratitude for addressed petitions. In the weeks, prompting Thaipusam, devotees spend up to a month praying and fasting. This festival is one of the most brutal and excruciating to watch, and some might even find it pointless. Here’s why. The devotee is made to carry a steel frame with spikes on it which pierce his/her body and weighs about 60 pounds. And as if the weight is not enough, a skewer is pierced through the devotees cheek, which pierces their tongue as well and comes out from the other cheek. Furthermore, fish hooks are clung to the back of the devotees and the devotees are made to walk for an exhausting distance of 4km with all that piercing and weight. This is one of the most bizarre and unnecessary displays of religious practice you will ever see on the planet. The wounds do not bleed a drop of blood as the piercings are on the skin and carefully inserted by experts who have mastered the art of piercing.

Thaipusam Festival

For details of the climate, places to see and things to do, you can check out a Singapore travel guide, but make sure you time your visit during the time one of these three festivals take place in Singapore.

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